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Cuba, 1950: As Esmeralda moved past Christopher, her breath stilled as he caught her finger in his. It was only a split-second, their fingers intertwined in a hold so brief that no one could have possibly noticed, but it told her everything she needed to know....
"Sparks fly in this Victorian enemies-to-lovers romance Her rival in business... Her suitor in Society! When debutante Lady Amelia Lambourne is presented to self-made entrepreneur Leo Devenish at a Society dinner, he has no idea she has a scandalous secret:...
Watch out, Jack Reacher, here comes Frank Winter. Frank Winter is an ex-cop, a former hard-boiled Boston detective with a soft centre living in curmudgeonly retirement with his beloved dog, Dolly. But when his daughter's killer is released on parole, Frank's...
Mickey Bloom: five foot tall, dyslexic, and bullied at school. Mickey knows she's nothing special. Until one day, she discovers running. Mickey's new-found talent makes her realise she's everything she thought she wasn't powerful, strong and special. But her...
"Someone wants trans girl hacker-for-hire Kiera Umehara in prison or dead-but for what? Failing to fix their smart toilet? It's 2032 and we live in the worst cyberpunk future. Kiera is gigging her ass off to keep the lights on, but her polycule's social score...
"An evocative novel of love and art, and one man's journey to find his place in the world. Where Light Meets Water is a moving debut traversing nineteenth-century London, Melbourne and New Zealand's rugged South Island. London, 1847. Sailor Tom Rutherford has...
"A little way off in the future, during a time of plague and profound social collapse, a group of friends escapes to a house in the country where they entertain themselves by playing music, eating, drinking and telling stories about their lives. There are...
"Populist political parties are increasing their influence across the world. It couldn't happen in New Zealand, could it? Journalist Grace Marks is investigating two unrelated stories - New Zealand's alt-right, and the emergence of a new organisation,...
"Drawn into another inter-realm battle, Liberty and her friends are immersed in an epic quest, deep in earth's history. The fate of Geneva hangs in the balance, and requires an experienced team to deliver it from ruin and annihilation. The throne is in pieces,...
"Two passionate cousins seeking adventure and causing strife for their family. Torn apart, they search for their own identity. Thor, the smiling, calm Dane, attracts, many to his side. Elise Marie, the Viking warrior, burns many souls. But she has one goal....
"Lara, thirty-nine and widowed, always thought she was good at assessing people's motivations. Growing up with an alcoholic and abusive mother taught her to be alert to signs of trouble coming her way, but now she begins to doubt her own judgement. When she...
Can a murder be cozy? Read away and find out. Flitting from Wellington, New Zealand across the globe to small town England the 12 tales within have humour, mystery, and of course murder. Featuring protagonists from the Silvermoon Retirement Village and Ghostly...
"As the third wave of the virus hits, all inhabitants of Melbourne are given until 8 pm to get to their homes. Wherever they are when the curfew begins, they must live for four weeks and stay within five kilometres of. When Lou's son, Samuel, doesn't arrive...
"Two rival spies must brave pirates, witches, and fake matrimony to save the Queen. Known as Agent A, Alice is the top operative within the Agency of Undercover Note Takers, a secret government intelligence group that is fortunately better at espionage than at...
''When the worst, the most disastrous thing possible happens, is Francie's life in 1940s New Zealand ruined, and if so, who is to blame?1940s. Wartime in New Zealand - two islands in the South Pacific. A small population living under the threat of Japanese...
"Seduced – The story of a Cottage commences with soul mates Julius (8) and Salina (12) fishing from the Kawhia wharf, and briefly relates their rural town adventures, until Julius discovers Salina, now 20, with another youth. The discovery and consequences...
"The Cottage commences with Leda arriving at the cottage as a storm breaks: a storm that brings an Asian fishing boat ashore, with three green-clad women being pursued by gun toting fishermen? Leda is embroiled in a new mystery, especially when out of the...
"With no role in sight and nothing to lose, actor Lou Galloway heads to Mexico to drown his sorrows. After a mezcal too many, he is mistaken for a rogue assassin known as El Flamingo. Before he can decide whether he wants to find a way out, he is enthralled by...
"Kerry-Anne is kind, unlike her foster sister Joleen, who is a different kind of person altogether. Being locked down for Joleen will mean behind bars. For Kerry-Anne's ex-husband, the National MP Lyall Hull, lockdown will also take on a new meaning when he...
"This is the incredible story of one man's journey through a world war and then onto world-wide sporting glory. It is a story of friendship, redemption and hope. Of luck and guts, loneliness and terror, kindness and salvation, sportsmanship, resurrection and...
"A lone man stands apart from a formidable enemy. Caught behind enemy lines after the Battle of Mount Olympus, Sonny Wirima must make his way through mainland Greece and the Aegean Islands to find his lost Māori Battalion, with only his instincts and...
"Betrayed by her friends and shunned by those who should have protected her, Shula is forced to face the Truth. From the lushness of the foothills to the rarefied air of the mountain peak, Shula learns to fall in love with Jesus, and find who Truth really is....
"The Treaty of Waitangi - dramatised and seen from a different point of view. It is 1823 and Henry and Marianne Williams are on their way to New Zealand, full of optimism in their quest to bring the Gospel of Peace to the Maori people. But the Maori, in...
"What would you do if you lived in constant fear of your past? Haunted by the pirates who burned your city, exploited by the people who pulled you from the ashes? Freya Willowray carries a life debt: to repay her saviours with secrets. She wants freedom. She...
"All Kenna Sanders has ever wanted is to find a place she can call home. So when her grandmother leaves her failing bait shop business to her, Kenna sees a chance at building a stable life in the Cornish village she was born in but never knew. But her...
How do you mend the broken, be it toasters, relationships or people? Julia once re-created broken objects to be better than before. Now she's lost the will to repair anything, including herself. A series of earthquakes triggered Julia's descent into apathy and...
"Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene: ten-year-old Jessica found dead in the 'Laughterhouse', an old abandoned slaughterhouse with the 'S' spray-painted over. The killer was found and arrested. Justice was served. Or was it? Fifteen years later,...
"In the exciting new psychological thriller by the Edgar-nominated author of Joe Victim, a famous crime writer struggles to differentiate between his own reality and the frightening plot lines he's created for the page. Jerry Grey is known to most of the world...
Hana Westerman is a tenacious Maori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland's Central Investigation Branch. When she's led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man hanging in a secret room. Hana and...
"Sally Gelee is a commitment-phobe looking for lasting love. She works in a rest home, it's a nice, safe environment; the men there aren't fast enough to catch her and they pose no threat. Being a commitment-phobe, that suits her, but she's also a hopeless...
"A secret meet cute, enemies to lovers, grumpy hero, second chance romance. Four magical words to solve almost any relationship problem Let me give you some worthwhile advice Pissed off a girl? Reduced a girl to tears? Made the most colossal mistake of your...
"As the solitary Land Girl on a farm in 1940s New Zealand, Alice fights her own battles to prove her farming abilities while working alongside stern and heartless men. Being trampled by an escaped sheep only seems to confirm what her new boss presumed; she's...
Falling For The Forbidden Duke / Eva Shepherd: A weekend with the duke, a temptation she must resist!Illegitimate Georgina Daglish is used to staying in the shadows and letting her half-sister, Olivia, shine. So when they arrive at Luther Rosemont, Duke of...
"Perpetual Gabral, a Portuguese-Indian living in Queenstown, New Zealand, had always found herself being pulled by emotions she didn't quite understand. What starts off as a compulsion to delve into her family's past and look for answers, emerges as an urgent...
After an unconventional and nomadic childhood, all Mel wants is a successful business and a stable life. She's focussed on the new bookshop she's just opened with her best friend Ellie and the wine and cheese evenings they're about to start. But Mel is up...
"Holed up at Hilary Bill-Tasman's manor estate for Christmas, Troy Alleyn is to paint the man's portrait and, while she's there, view the Druid Christmas pageant. Along with a pack of eccentric guests, Troy enjoys the festivities-- until one of the pageant's...
1850, London, England. Nellie is encouraged to travel with her two companions to New Zealand, leaving behind her sad and tragic past. She thrives in her new life in the colonies until she returns to London to settle the estate of her late uncle, of which she...
"Ten people have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. Pioneered by tech-wunderkind Cy Baxter, FUSION can track anyone wherever they are on earth. But does it work? Each participant is given two hours to 'Go Zero' - to go...
"A new wind is blowing. Selena makes the decision to take Rue to Wilde Grove, to get to the heart of her dreaming, for it is certain that Rue has lived before as a priestess of Wilde Grove. But what is the lesson Rue needs to learn? With Morghan giving Rue a...
"William Robertson is a torn man. Nearly four and a half years since his once beloved eldest brother, Albert, fled the clergy to elope with a woman, the couple are now blacklisted from both families and William has come to despise Albert for the effect his...
It's the early 1990s in Timaru, and Brewer Howland has killed himself. His wife, Briar, is left stranded in a rapidly changing world. The future she took for granted has been obliterated and she must invent a new one. But how does a sixty-something widow go...
"When her secret surfaces...can her family survive it? Meet the Tobin family...Joy, the complicated, troubled mother. She's spent her life running from her past while trying to raise her children as best she can. Conor, the high-achieving son. A high-profile...
The residents of Point Heed keep nice houses and sign up as parent help at the local school. Occasionally they cheat on their taxes. Sometimes they fantasise about having sex with someone other than their partner. And every now and then they do drugs. But that...
"A polyphonic novel of Teha'amana, Tahitian muse and child-bride to Paul Gaugin, from her point of view conveyed through the myths and legends of the islands. 'A feminist masterpiece.'"-- Publisher description.
"All his life, Malcolm Tutt wanted to be found. Now on the eve of turning fifty, he realised that sometimes life may never find you and if you wanted it bad enough, sometimes you would have to go and look for it yourself. The only problem was that he would...
"Jaz is back, on another journey of discovery with opposition from the black, unscrupulous people and even the land itself. This time, however, she is not alone, with support from both her friends and some unlikely allies. This is a story of fighting, horses,...
Another ten stories from the author of The Rip and other stories. Praise for The Rip 'Brian Millard paints wonderful pictures with words as well as his brush.'Janis Flannery. Sydney. 'The Rip kept me turning the pages. Many-layered prose by a writer at the...
Women and girls walk a perilously thin line between ruin and redemption in these stories as they try-with varying degrees of success-to outmanouver the violence that threatens to define their lives. There's the physical violence of men against their bodies-and...
"Sunny, a seasoned, long-time activist who fights to liberate enslaved and exploited victims, is herself an escapee from a farm where she was kept as a slave. Years of battling for total liberation did not dampen her highly developed sense of justice. But time...
"Lexie discovers the body of bestselling crime novelist, Beth Weaver, and finds herself at the top of the inspector’s suspect list. Top of Lexie’s list are the three couples who are Beth’s only neighbours on the isolated Illwinter Road. The prospective Member...
"Wry, real and astute, these linked stories are from an exciting new talent. In BurgerKai, Mel is given a motivational talk on what she says is 'failing at a stupid, screwed-up sales job, selling stupid plastic shelving'. Her days at Pacific Wave Plastics are...
People are not always what they seem. When Ruby narrowly escapes 1950s Auckland with her young daughter and seeks to build a new life in the Manawatu, she discovers it is easier to change her surroundings than her reality. Set against the conservatism of the...
"In a remote Sicilian mountain town, four women arrive at a cookery school, each at a turning point in their lives. Moll is a foodie and an exhausted working mum on the holiday of a lifetime. Tricia, a top London lawyer, is taking a break from the demands of...
Nostalgic and tender as a bruise.' - Jacqueline Bublitz, before you knew my name Becky thought she'd left Zoe Golden and that summer far behind. Until now. Set in 1995 against the backdrop of Auckland's burgeoning party scene, Golden Days is the story of an...
"A pregnant Sam Shephard investigates the murder of an expectant mother in Dunedin, as it becomes clear that the killer is ready to strike again ... Queen of New Zealand Crime, Vanda Symon, returns with a shocking, twisty new Sam Shephard thriller... The...
When successful financial adviser Lewis Hammond moves to a small country town he leaves behind his former occupation. A cross-dresser since childhood, Lewis has come to try out his life as a woman. Louise's Vintage Cafe is an overnight success. High teas and...
"Can you fall in love with someone you've never met? When Belle started writing to Enrico, she certainly wasn't looking to fall in love! Everything about his life in southern Italy is so different to hers - but somehow, across half the world, a magical...
Resisting The Single Dad Next Door - Louisa GeorgeNew doc in town? Irresistible!Carly lost her husband years ago and its finally time to move on from the beautiful island they called home. Until she meets new neighbour, GP Owen and his adorable son. Carly...
"A novel about the near-future of society, in which utopian aims can have unintended consequences "A laser-focused, irresistible lampoon of woke culture", says Kirkus Reviews With Identity Politics and Artificial Intelligence rapidly changing our world, what...
"When I called the mayor a cockwomble, it didn't go down well. Jewel Bauer has always been the underdog in whatever situation she lands in, and unfortunately her 'act now, think later' approach to life - or, as she puts it, being the biggest numpty this side...
"Are we calling it 'encouragement' now? I like it. Less in your face than 'blackmail'." Becky, unlucky in love and facing unemployment, won't let life get her down. Anahera, stepmum to three boisterous boys, has found love but is struggling to find her place...
"These previously uncollected stories encapsulate Jane Mander's appeal as a short fiction writer. They are lively to read and demonstrate her finesse as a prose stylist, but they have another attraction: a focus on strong and distinctive female characters and...
"Birnam Wood is on the move ...A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. This land offers an opportunity to Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective...
"Archaeologists Mac and Steve find themselves back in time looking for a man whom the kings and emperors and popes of Europe wanted desperately to find too. Islamic forces were pressing against Christendom. Tales existed of a powerful warrior in the east who...
"World to world to world. Selena must face the task of being where she is, of finding her path in the country that is her new home. But now that Rue and Clover are safe, what exactly is her purpose? She is used to walking the worlds, but has never before...
"Retired Detective Inspector Ann Grieves, now private investigator, probes the dark secrets of Arcadia, a remote religious sect in West Auckland where abuse of adults and children is rife. After blowing the whistle on their narcissistic leader, a young dairy...
"THE VILLA GIRLS is the story of four young women who decide that wherever they are in the world and whatever they're doing they'll meet every few years for a holiday together somewhere sunny. Despite life taking them in very different directions, their...
"Elsinore Robotics is on the cusp of a breakthrough-the company is poised to create the first humanoid androids powered by true artificial intelligence. Their only rival, Norwegian Technologies, lost a publicly streamed contest between their flagship model,...
"London, 1941. The Blitz. When a Royal Navy memo arrives at head office, requesting female recruits to sign up as motorcycle dispatch riders, delivering highly classified orders across the country, three women jump at the chance to sign up for the most...
"Pregnant. Single. Dating. It's going to be ... a bumpy year! Trish Kirkpatrick never expected to find herself unmarried, pregnant, and not entirely sure who the baby's father is. With her ex, Pete, and her colleague, Elliot, in line for daddy duty while...
"Stella has life under control and that's the way she likes it. But when her boss dies suddenly, Stella starts to question her life choices and finds that she has little to show for herself other than her poky London flat. In order to build the life she has...
"Meet Brock. He's heading for a major collision with the past, and he can't see her coming. Is Adelaide the cause of it, or will she be the person who puts him back together? Set on the rugged and beautiful west coast of New Zealand, Brock lives an idyllic...
"It's an engrossing discovery of the extraordinary lengths to which our young Welsh protagonist is prepared to go - up and down the entire country in his bright-red sports car as he pursues his Kiwi love on her quest to win the Miss New Zealand Beauty Contest....
"Few people can keep a secret safe. For a secret to have been kept for 231 years is incredible - especially when it is about the life of such a famous person as composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. If the contention of this story is valid, it will rock the world...
"Calliope Harrison might be down on her luck but the last thing she expected was her old childhood neighbour, Gabriel St Croix to turn up on her doorstep and become an aggravating thorn in her side. Then he asks for the impossible... one year of wedded...
"Luke Sawyer is an ex-slave and former Union soldier-turned-lawman. Along with his partner, Jack McCrae, Luke is tasked with finding Charles Lee Ringo - a maniacal cult leader with a loyal army of disgruntled former confederates. In order to capture Ringo, the...
"A body plunging off a cliff, a new craze for pedestrianism and the related gambling, a constable willing to walk ninety miles without stopping, and a testing undercover assignment for Mr. Hardy. When a race walking champion is forced off a cliff to his death,...
"Addolorata Martinelli knows she should be happy. She has everything she thought she wanted - her own business, a husband, a child. So why does she feel as if something is missing? Then when her restaurant, Little Italy, is slated by a reviewer, she realises...
"You will never make a doctor. The professor's harsh words threaten to end Theo Malone's medical career before he sees his first patient. The idealistic Kiwi is determined to prove the professor wrong - until the death of a child from meningitis during a...
"“It is all about vision beyond seeing.” Rose Gillander has had two marriages to good men who were ambitious and somewhat self-absorbed. There has not been much room for the sort of love she craves. Now aged eighty-five, sensible, reserved Rose has lost most...
Kiwi Yarns is a book of twenty-seven short stories about New Zealanders, in New Zealand settings and themed to highlight New Zealand situations. The book contains five sections featuring Kiwis in towns, Kiwis in the country, Real Kiwi experiences, Kiwis...
"In late summer of 1879, an unexpected, early morning door knock alters Leonard Hardy's life when a neighbour discovers an unidentified body outside his home. Naturally curious, he sets out to learn the identity of the dead man, but a series of peculiar events...
"Captain's Fancy is set during four tumultuous decades in the middle of the twentieth century, a time when ordinary people did extraordinary things and heroes were marked by their deeds. Lives were framed by experiences and loves were lost due to circumstances...
A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's best stories. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so...
"A phone call from the anxious husband of a murdered woman brings Private Investigator, Benedict Aberthorp, into the sinister world of his first murder case. When his new client tells Benedict he is the police's prime suspect, Benedict agrees to help him. But...
"Cryptic fable, social commentary, black comedy, subverted myth, potted history, cautionary tale, psychological drama, flight of fancy, slice of life, redemption story - Transit Lounge explores the artistic possibilities of short fiction while introducing the...
"It's just a Lark until Grace disappears and local authorities stall their investigation. Laura flies to Sicily to uncover who is behind her younger sister's mysterious disappearance. Grace's ability to hide the truth from Laura leads to a series of events...
"Justin Truth isn't immune to the pressure to make profits, and his tenuous grip on reality begins to slip. Will his mistakes - deadly mistakes - become more apparent to those determined to catch and expose him? With mounting pressure on Justin, cryptic...
"With no moral compass, Justin Truth aggressively seizes control of corporate giant, Soda-Cola. But being on top of the corporate world isn't enough for Justin when he compares himself to ruthless billionaire, Peter Gordon. Peter is hell-bent on making his...
"From inside his high-rise office, ruthless sociopath Justin Truth surveys his panoramic view of New York City. This is his city. His country. His America. Justin is on a mission to conquer the corporate giant, Soda-Cola. He will threaten, backstab,...
Finn Kelly guides hikes across the rugged wilderness he calls home. When jewelry designer Bethany Grant moves into town and proceeds to involve herself in every aspect of his life, he finds himself thinking he could use a friend. Bethany is drawn to dark,...
Stranded with the paramedic - It started with a storm... Will it end in for ever? Brooke Williams is taking control of her life... but the only thing this paramedic can't control is the weather! So when her beachside break is struck by torrential rain she...
How to resist the single dad- GP trainee Stella Wright left the idyllic Cotswold village she grew up in, never planning to return...especially not to train at the local practice under Dr. Aaron Bennett. Now, being back is the least of her problems! Aaron is...
"...The stories in Kaleidoscopes in the dark paint the more sinister elements of the psyche in technicolour. The collection writhes with black humour, remnants of fairytales and gothic themes.... Dip your toes into new dark fantasy worlds with these eleven...
"Within the Auckland suburb of Birkenhead lurks a monster, one the local residents entrust with their recently departed loved ones. He has been inflicting his depraved atrocities unnoticed. But what happens when he turns his attentions to the living?"--
"Abel Kinkade and the crew of the H.M.S. Viritus are stranded on uncharted shores. His older cousin, the fearless marine Lieutenant Vincent Luther, must hold order amongst the men before they fall to chaos and bloodshed. The lives of the innocent are at stake...
"Bewitching songs and small town secrets. In the quaint town of Ledstow, Esther lives a good distance from her nosy parents, talks to anyone who will listen about musicals, and jams on her ukulele. But when murder comes to her workplace, everyone is a suspect....
It’s been a long time since Jac Morgan was in her New Zealand hometown of Everly. She needed to be far away from her past and all the rumours about her involvement in the housefire that killed her mother. Now, though, Jac’s younger sister Charlie is missing,...
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